I Hope The MSM Keeps Playing Wanda's Limbaugh Joke Over & Over

They're foaming at the mouth at how over the top it was. Well here's a news flash for them. Most of the country doesn't like him, not a plurality but a big, as fat as he is, majority. I'm glad she used the word traitor. Somebody finally said that someone who wishes for his country to fail is a traitor. I hope millions hear that joke!

be pleased that he's "important" enough to be mentioned at the event?

by pretending it was so over the top that he can't possibly ignore it. The media has been known to stir the pot once or twice...

:sarcasm:

I bet Rush can't stand to be laughed at. Especially when he has to figure out why everyone is laughing.

His idea of funny is to make spastic crazed flailing movements with his arms while imitating Michael J. Fox with his illness.

been verboten for the last eight years. Second, her joke involved NAHN WUN WUN (terra, terra, terra!!!! Be AFRAID!! Run!!! Hide!! Where's the duct tape?). And after all, people DIED on Nahn Wun Wun, therefore we must be in a perpetual state of seriousness and sombre aspect when we discuss that topic--per the rightwing, because they use it like a sword over our heads. She not only called Limpballs a nitwit, she called him an incompetent terrorist hijacker--an incompetent terrorist hijacker who was so high on street-bought prescription meds that he couldn't even make it to his gig!

It was a joke rich with nuance, rich with several layers and levels of insult--and packaged beautifully. By the time you opened your mouth to gasp with glee, she was on to the next riff.

I've always thought Miss Sykes was one of the finest talents of the last couple of decades. She has yet to find a vehicle that is truly worthy of her skills, but her stand-up is a killa.

Do you ever watch her on HBO? She can really let loose and the result is that you laugh so hard your sides hurt.

That "Aunt Esther" character was VERY cleaned up from the routines she used to do in comedy clubs with Redd Foxx.

She understands the DC life and how to play the game--her father was a colonel who worked in the Pentagon, after all.

She read the room and played it just right.

I have watched her HBO "filmed live" comedy show (Sick-n-Tired) as well as her recurring role on Larry David's show and many of her film appearances. I haven't seen her on the Julia Louis Dreyfuss show--I just don't do sitcoms. She had a brief network series that tanked for a lot of reasons--mainly that it wasn't the right venue for her (I could never find it, either), as well as one on Comedy Central that I thought was pretty good but didn't make it.

She's a brilliant comedian and an equally brilliant writer--Chris Rock owes much of his success to her pen. She's a very smart writer, as well as a topical one.

lot of people who wouldn't even know she said it in the first place. Now they can enjoy it too.

Love it even more the second time around!

Having Wanda Sykes speak at that thing took rare courage. She always manages to tell it like it is. She's easily the funniest woman out there.

Yeah, Lardblah's reaction should be great. I don't know whether he'll pout over the "traitor" or bellow with wounded pride over the "strung out on oxycontin" or both, but it won't work.

The damage has been done and she did it masterfully.

Periodically, Carson would tell a Lincoln assassination joke, something along the lines of the old "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?" chestnut. Invariably, the audience would groan. Carson would then slyly ask "Too soon?"--a hundred or more years after the event.

Nowadays, we don't spend a lot of time rehashing history before it becomes fodder for comedy, for a made-for-TV (or silver screen) movie, or for other "dramatizations" of all sorts. In the old days, you'd wait till someone was dead before someone played them on film--that's not the case anymore.

ETA-spelling repair.

That bastard needs to be brought to his knees and disemboweled each and every day of his life.

His brand of divisiveness is more harmful than Osama bin Laden could ever have dreamed of.

I'm so glad she compared him to Bin Laden. Let's see him play that over and over

Wanda is one of the few that has the "nerve" to go after him.

The kidney remark could have been left out, as the oxycontin part brought the zing to him.

No matter, I got a great laugh out of her performance.

She's fearless and would probably take him on with gusto. I would love to see him try to get back at her. She could do a whole comedy routine on him alone.

OxyRush IS a traitor for almost everything he says on the air every day but for the "I want the President to fail"
statement in particular. Too bad Wanda didn't mention his sex weekends in the Dominican Republic with 'the boys'.

Then kidney disease would be more successful in bringing down terrorists than the Bush administration.

is far more important to him. I doubt he'll even mention Sykes...